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So, my boss wants to turn his business of providing chemical analysis of wines, beers and juices from a hobby gone way out of hand into a legitimate business. I'm assuming we're gonna need to get iso 17025 accredited, but I've absolutely no experience with this. Do you folks have experience with getting accredited, and do you have any recommendations on how to go about getting it? I'm EU, by the way. Dance Officer fucked around with this message at 15:50 on Mar 20, 2019 |
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Dance Officer posted:So, my boss wants to turn his business of providing chemical analysis of wines, beers and juices from a hobby gone way out of hand into a legitimate business. I've gone through something pretty similar. Are you still the only employee? Willing to hire/contract to get this done? Is the owner motivated to get the accreditation done? If he's not committed that's gonna make it pretty hard for you I'm in the US, and far from an expert, but here's my thoughts. I'm not sure about how your accreditation body(ies) is organized. First step is to find out who is accrediting you. See if they have any education programs you could take advantage of. Once you've done some work on getting your systems in place, it might be worth getting a gap assesment. Our AB offered that, not sure if the eu one will, or if theres 3rd party auditors you could use. Not sure how helpful my thoughts are, but happy to talk more if you want sa.epitope@gmail.com Post here if you email me, I never check that one
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Thanks, I just sent an email your way.
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I almost posted this on the corporate thread but figured this would be better here. After our recent FDA audit QA mandated some policy changes. One was a moronic change to our empower policy so we no longer sign off on sample sets when we fail system suit just the injections needed to show the failure. Then someone locks the channels. If you accedently process a sample set that failed system suit you get hit with a analytical deviation. The other is a new poorly written sop that generates more paperwork. -system suit failures go in a new system suit logbook -if you fail twice you have to meet with you supervisor to discuss a plan of action -if you fail again take the instrument out of service. -the log book will be reviewed by QA monthly So from this I have gathered -our KF analysis are hosed since some days the KF just sucks. My boss is a chromatographer and nothin else (legit only has a associates in chem) so she has no clue about the KF as well. -QA will find a new way to demand a 5 whys analysis to a system failure -QA has a new Quality Event to ding you for in addition to OOS, OOT and Deviations. - since our methods are garbage I will spend my day writing more paperwork If anyone has questions I'll be huffing either out of the solvent cabinet to cope.
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Shrieking Muppet posted:I almost posted this on the corporate thread but figured this would be better here. You're in analytical chemistry hell. Unless you want your job to be dealing with this bullshit, find a new job.
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Dik Hz posted:You're in analytical chemistry hell. Unless you want your job to be dealing with this bullshit, find a new job. Have an interview next week if they up the money I might take it
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On the other side, I work trying to convince software engineers to create a bare minimum feature set for compliance on GCMS. I'm trying, and I'm so so sorry.
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Dance Officer posted:So, my boss wants to turn his business of providing chemical analysis of wines, beers and juices from a hobby gone way out of hand into a legitimate business. You are in for some fuuuuuuuun times. We did it three years ago, some of it is useful, the other is misery for the sake of misery. The first year is definitely the worst. If you have any say in what goes for the primary quality manual, push for getting a template. They sell them online, and while you still have to do quite a bit, it at least gives a very solid framework to build off of. If you’re smaller sized like we are, I highly recommend going this route. ISO:17025 also accredits to specific test methods. There’s a general quality manual and then to the test method itself. ISO gets you into an entirely different class of clients as well- we list out we are ISO:17025 and that we are accredited for X methods, and the majority of the time we’ve been told that it’s just the cert that their internal department cares about. Keep in mind that they just changed the version (last year I think) so a lot of people are in the middle of switching over because they redesigned it (mostly for the worst, although there are a few actual improvements). It’s gonna be pure chaos for the next year as everyone switches to the new system. Luckily you won’t have to deal with the switch; it’s incredibly irritating to finally get everything running smoothly then find out you get to switch over. Overall it’s a good business move, but the transition blows.
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Johnny Truant posted:Changed my mind, beta-mercaptoethanol is the foulest smelling thing on this goddamn planet, holy poo poo. TEMED is worse IMO
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i change my answer, the lab lunch fridge is the foulest thing right now it's like stinky cheese, stinky tofu, month old free seminar food and durian in there right now
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Kommienzuspadt posted:TEMED is worse IMO Development posted:i change my answer, the lab lunch fridge is the foulest thing right now Somebody microwaved fish in the microwave that is 20 feet from my office door  In other news, I hate upright freezer racks, I hate companies that sell them, I hate companies that make them. Hell I hate companies that even think about them. Hate, hate, hate. 
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Can the noise from an ultrasonic bath in some way be contained so that less than half the entire building gets bothered by the sound?
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Dance Officer posted:Can the noise from an ultrasonic bath in some way be contained so that less than half the entire building gets bothered by the sound? No the shrill sound must torment all souls
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Dance Officer posted:Can the noise from an ultrasonic bath in some way be contained so that less than half the entire building gets bothered by the sound? kind of the whole point of the mechanism
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Mar 31, 2019 22:57
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Dance Officer posted:Can the noise from an ultrasonic bath in some way be contained so that less than half the entire building gets bothered by the sound? That how you know it’s working right
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Development posted:i change my answer, the lab lunch fridge is the foulest thing right now I work at a medical campus in a pretty flush clinical division's floorspace so most people on my floor are working professionals that get paid a decent ish salary (techs), not the horde of grad students, post-docs and pre-meds like up at boulder. In practice this just means their gross food is packaged in nicer lunch boxes.
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I like bringing leftover fish and onions, very garlicky potatoes, and popcorn for my meals. I’m sure this is fine and I won’t suffer a horrible accident.
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Kinetica posted:I like bringing leftover fish and onions, very garlicky potatoes, and popcorn for my meals. I’m sure this is fine and I won’t suffer a horrible accident. You're gonna find yourself in a vat of HF.
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Dance Officer posted:Can the noise from an ultrasonic bath in some way be contained so that less than half the entire building gets bothered by the sound?
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gently caress sop review season and especially gently caress me for thinking to create a reference guide to condense SOPs for like 30 similar materials into a single document. Each material now has to link to the reference document and each sop is a numbered list and formatting mess due to office versions loving everything up over the years.
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Mustached Demon posted:gently caress sop review season and especially gently caress me for thinking to create a reference guide to condense SOPs for like 30 similar materials into a single document. 
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I fuckin love how even after 15+ years in industry, once a post-doc, always a post-doc. If you say there's leftover pizza in the break room it's gone in under 5 minutes.Dik Hz posted:If you don't put any water in the bath, it's 10x worse. Ask me how I know. I have a gentle sonication protocol on some of my instruments, I'm starting to find it soothing now, which worries me.
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How to give your analytical chemist a heart attack in under five seconds: We have three molecules going for clinical manufacture in the next two or three months, including one which went from "nah, we don't need any methods for it ever" to "oh yeah we need cleaning recovery and potency, and we need them immediately." His group is working feverishly to get all these methods working and validated while understaffed due to one guy going on a rotation for half the year. Today, I went over to him to hand him a bunch of paperwork associated with the most urgent of these molecules. "Hey, for [DRUG X], I have the new forms ready for you whenever you want them." "WHAT?? WHAT DO YOU MEAN NEW FORMS? MULTIPLE?!?" *holds up stack of paper* Visible relief in his face as he sinks back in to his seat. He thought I was dumping new molecular forms on his plate, not paper documentation.
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Sundae posted:How to give your analytical chemist a heart attack in under five seconds: You gave me a heart attack reading that.
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I was never even a chemist, and am now probably out of the lab for good, and "nah we don't need methods"/"WE NEED EVERY METHOD YESTERDAY" still gave me that queasy feeling. Jesus.
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Why is it as soon as I have finished gowning up and enter a potent lab I have to use the bathroom?
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Shrieking Muppet posted:Why is it as soon as I have finished gowning up and enter a potent lab I have to use the bathroom? Same reason I always have to after the cal check passes on the icp before samples run. Speaking of, my labs hiring a chemist. BS+experience required. Advanced degrees also lovely and gets more money. Kickers being 1) you may have to work with me and 2) 12-hour shifts rotating between day/night shift every four months. Other details: Boise, ID. Working with almost every type of analytical chemistry test--icp or ic experience really sets you apart though. Starting out, it's 75% analytical work and 25% analytical development. It's a middle ground between a qa/qc lab and r&d lab. Eventually it evens out to 50/50 after a few years. Starting pays 75-80k/yr or up to around 100k/yr if you're a Dr. Great benefits. Cheap to live in Boise compared to real cities. Last person left because the nights and their special needs child didn't go well together. PM me or something if you're interested.
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Today in first world lab problems: I finally found the perfect brand and size of gloves that fit me but someone keeps swiping them off of my desk 
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How many goons do we have here who work for instrument manufacturers? I'm a chemist looking to get back into a more lab-focused role after spinning my wheels in a regulatory position for a few years. I had a good but unsuccessful interview with an instrument manufacturer last fall for a role that sounded like a mashup of Sales and Technical Support. Basically customers who were already interested in purchasing something would come to them and they'd talk through their research needs and figure out the best instrument from the catalog. Customers would also send samples for the company to test on their in-house instruments to help the decision-making process, and once a quarter the role would road-trip to visit customers on-site for a couple of days. Is that kind of an atypical position, or does that line up with the goons who are in instrumentation?
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C-Euro posted:How many goons do we have here who work for instrument manufacturers? I'm a chemist looking to get back into a more lab-focused role after spinning my wheels in a regulatory position for a few years. I had a good but unsuccessful interview with an instrument manufacturer last fall for a role that sounded like a mashup of Sales and Technical Support. Basically customers who were already interested in purchasing something would come to them and they'd talk through their research needs and figure out the best instrument from the catalog. Customers would also send samples for the company to test on their in-house instruments to help the decision-making process, and once a quarter the role would road-trip to visit customers on-site for a couple of days. Is that kind of an atypical position, or does that line up with the goons who are in instrumentation? Instrument R&D here, and that sounds like a field applications scientist/engineer role, though with more of an emphasis on sales rather than training or troubleshooting. Neat!
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Shbobdb posted:Seconding this. I recently got a job as a field service engineer (Application support specialist, field service engineer, field application specialist . . . all the same really). It is pretty awesome. I get to travel a bunch, the paycheck is sweet, I'm using my Ph.D. Check out Ed's Joblist and see if anything pops out at you. Quoting a previous post on the topic. Get On Ed's List
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tesserae posted:Instrument R&D here, and that sounds like a field applications scientist/engineer role, though with more of an emphasis on sales rather than training or troubleshooting. Neat! Yeah it was cool which is why I was disappointed that I didn't get an offer  What are some skills you'd recommend working on or advertising to make me a more appealing hire in that field?
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PMed you an example open role that's a bit in both spaces. Emphasizing sales victories as well as training/field competencies in equal measure would be a good start.
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I was a field service engineer / apps guy for a liquid handling instrument. Small company. Depending on what kind of stuff you do, there might be a lot of travel. Was a deal breaker for me personally. Keep that in mind as you're looking for jobs. Some people love it, but it can be pretty grueling.
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Hi all - been lurking a good long while and thought I'd ask around for some advice because I'm at a bit of weird spot in my career (to use the word loosely) and would like to pick your brains a bit. Background: I got my BSc in Chemistry just about 6 yrs ago as of last week. Since then, I spent 1.5yrs working in silicone polymer R&D, 1 yr as a glorified line cook producing batches of raw polymer to be fashioned into resorbable heart stents, and I'm currently 1.5yr into my current position as essentially QA lead for a local, somewhat-prominent brewery (the rest of that time was funemployment trying to find a halfway decent job after getting laid off from the first two). I'm not particularly happy with that progression, as my overall pay has actually gone down with each subsequent job AND I've been at roughly the same weird twilight of "chemist/technician I/II/III" the whole time. So far the work-life balance at the brewery is pretty solid, benefits are good, and so are the people, but the work itself is pretty monotonous and I don't see a major promotion or raise happening anytime soon, so my thoughts have turned to how best to improve my skills/resume before trying to find something new and better. I have a few ideas - right now it's between picking up CS/tech skills/certs, getting my MBA, or getting my Master's in Chem. I just don't know how to evaluate which of those options fits my situation best. I worry about starting the CS stuff without a set goal in mind, I worry about getting an MBA and then not knowing what to do with it, and I worry that my general chem/college skillset has atrophied too much over the years for my Master's. If anyone's been in similar situations or can lend a few words of wisdom, that'd be greatly appreciated!
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UberChair posted:Hi all - been lurking a good long while and thought I'd ask around for some advice because I'm at a bit of weird spot in my career (to use the word loosely) and would like to pick your brains a bit. What do you want? Where would you like to be in a year? 5 years? 10 years?
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Within the next year-ish I want to get out of the brewery and into something with a bit more room for advancement - I'm thinking something like project manager. I don't really feel I have the academic background to do formulation or in-depth analysis so I want to get into a position that doesn't quite require years and years of experience in those things, but I'm not opposed to learning if I'm find a job that deals with that (and I actually get hired, ofc). Further than that I would wanna transition into sales or management, but truthfully I have no idea how to even start down the sales road.
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UberChair posted:Chemists lament The masters would be a waste of time, PhDs are plentiful and most people view masters as a consolation prizes for failed PhD aspirants. Mine has done nothing but cost me another year of paying my loans off. MBA could be better but only if work wants you to have one. I’m debating the CS stuff my self but choose wisely, a lot of that is becoming a commodity. I’ve been looking at security stuff but only apathetically.
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Thanks for the advice re: Master's of various flavors. I guess that's the core of my issues, I feel like I have a wide pool of experience but none of it is that deep, and I don't know which way to move to fix that, outside applying to different, higher-tier jobs (something I am doing, but not as a primary concern right now).
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